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Huey Pierce Long Jr. was born on August 30, 1893, near Winnfield, a small town in north-central Louisiana, the seat of Winn Parish. [1] Although Long often told followers he was born in a log cabin to an impoverished family, they lived in a "comfortable" farmhouse and were well-off compared to others in Winnfield.
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. [1] In return for fifteen million dollars, [a] or ...
approximately 5000 at its peak. Schwegmann Brothers Giant Supermarkets, commonly known as Schwegmann or colloquially Schwegmann's, is a defunct grocery store chain that served the New Orleans, Louisiana, metropolitan area and one location in Baton Rouge until 1997. The chain developed significant innovations in grocery retailing and influenced ...
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Southern Legacy (1950) Gulf Coast Country (1951) (with Anthony Ragusin) John Law Wasn't So Wrong: The Story of Louisiana's Horn of Plenty (Baton Rouge, La.: Esso Standard Oil Company, 1952). Where Main Street Meets the River (New York: Rinehart & Co., 1953) Robert E. Lee and the Road of Honor (1954) So Great a Good (1955)
Baton Rouge, LA:Louisiana State University Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-8071-3394-1. Culture, Land, and Legacy: Perspectives on Carl Sauer and Berkeley School Geography, edited by Kent Mathewson and Martin S. Kenzer. Baton Rouge, LA: Geoscience Publications, 2003. Carl O. Sauer: The Road to Cíbola. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California ...
4000. ExxonMobil 's Baton Rouge Refinery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is the sixth-largest oil refinery in the United States and seventeenth-largest in the world, [1] with an input capacity of 540,000 barrels (86,000 m 3) per day as of January 1, 2020. [2] The refinery is the site of the first commercial fluid catalytic cracking plant that began ...
Fred S. LeBlanc. The Baton Rouge bus boycott was a boycott of city buses launched on June 19, 1953, by African-American residents of Baton Rouge, Louisiana who were seeking integration of the system. They made up about 80% of the ridership of the city buses in the early 1950s but, under Jim Crow rules, black people were forced to sit in the ...